Drugs and new drivers... Is it really THAT bad?

If an individual can't get clean for a KNOWN drug test, what in the hell do you think they're going to be like if left unimpeded? Randoms are like scales that are rarely used ... just the potential of being called in will keep MOST honest. At least it will go a long way toward keeping the riff-raff in check. Even with current drug laws affecting motor carrier industries, we still have the occasional impaired driver doing something idiotic while UI. Can you imagine if there were no policies against it? People are stupid, especially people who migrate toward recreational drug use. We don't need any more stupid truck drivers in the industry than we already have.

A truck driver affects (encounters) thousands of motorists and pedestrians every day, so it's not like any drug use they may engage in would ONLY affect them or their immediate family.

 

Millennials, feel really bad for our country when all of them are the senior class. Never in my life of 50 years have I seen such a disaster of a generation. By then half or more of the country will have legal weed and 80% of America will be sitting on their fat ##### stoned, eating Pringles watching netflix and complaining about rich people.

 

Legalize all drugs in small quantities for personal use. Society will not fall apart and a lot of our issues will start to get resolved. Look at Portugal as an example. Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News

How many of the old timers popped amphetamines or took pills or did coke and never mesded up. And you weren't looked down at like scum of the earth like the view's on todays drivers. Id feel safer sharing the road with the old timer that's been around the block a few times and just did a fat line before leaving the house than i would a sober new breed door slammer.

Big pharma and uncle same are the true pushers. Heroin and cocaine make up a good portion of the country's "black budget" gotta fund that #### congress rejects somehow. The opiate epidemic started gearing up again since we invaded iraq and Afghanistan. Tightening the belt on prescribed opiates for pain just made heroin more popular.

 

I was born in 1985. I think the boomers are easily the worst generation in American history. Selfish, short sighted, and completely incapable of doing anything but making a mess. I sincerely hope you guys aren't expecting to get the same retirement deal your parents did... You gave up on that when you decided to have 2.0 children per female and run a budget deficit my entire life.

 

Alchohol is a bigger problem. Its the source of most murders where I live and Thunder Bay has been murder capital of Canada for most of 40 years. The usual suspects get a few drinks and out come the blades. Our jail cells are generally at capacity filled with drunks. My sons friend was killed Monday night by a drunk driver failing to stop for stop sign hitting motorcycle going through intersection.

 

If cannabis wasn't a banned substance, I'd be smoking every time I park for my 10. Sleep like a #### baby. Thing is, they actually do have a test to determine whether you smoked within the last few days... saliva. Saliva tests are only accurate for the last day or 3, and thc is far less detectable beyond that. But like all other things, they want to control your life. Plain and simple.

 

With the way a lot of doctors in the US are paid to hand out opiates to patients like candy, this really doesn't surprise me. Opiate addiction/abuse is a huge problem in North America and only getting worse.

 

I have no comment on personal drug use. However, most of the drivers I've been working with (26) are a quart shy of full. I can't imagine what they would be like stoned.

 

Personally myself, I say let them OD and then bury them. It would be a heck of less stress and less tax burden on us to let it go this way. This way no one would be left to buy drugs on the street and give all of us that are clean and stay that way emplyed at a job we love and enjoy!!!!